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And…yet another “far right conspiracy theory” demonstrated to be true*.
Unusual post-covid-pandemic patterns of cancer and “turbo cancers”.
* Detection of “safety signal” requiring further investigation.
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If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think that this Covid plandemic was cooked up by the CCP to debilitate the western enemy from the inside out over a many years time line. What I can’t understand is why so many useful western idiots whole heartedly implement their own destruction.
Don’t forget, China used an old style attenuated virus type vaccine for their people, not the Mrna one “developed” at warp speed for for the west.
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So China wants a55% tariff on Australian beef!! How about Australia applies a 75% tariff to Chinese EVs, solar panels, wind turbines & electronics!!
Wishful thinking of course. We don’t have any politicians with the balls to retaliate!!
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The Tariff only applies to excess beef above their designated ‘quota’.
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As I understand it … the problem is that China arbitrarily reduced their ‘quota’ by, something like, a third this last year.
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Nah. Australia will pay whatever it has to to get those beloved panels and bird choppers.
We’re a captive market – of idiots.
And they absolutely don’t care about borrowing unlimited amounts of money to buy more, what they cost.
As for the other things, the Left politicians would love to see us consume less of those as they WANT a reduced standard of living for non-Elites.
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We have to do our bit to encourage and support slavery
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The Amish are making YouTube videos now.
Obviously they are catching up with the 20th century at least.
Interesting.
This is about stabilising rust using cheap chemicals.
The process involves tannic acid which converts the iron oxide rust into ferric tannate which is a stable durable, insoluble, blue-black polymeric substance coating the steel. The polymer is structurally based on chelated metal-ligand coordination bonds. (That was my interpretation, not from the Amish guy.)
https://youtu.be/x0fRqQctSsg
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There is a difference between the Amish and Mennonites … Mennonites embrace modern convenience whilst the Amish reject them.
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Had a wonderful meal at a Mennonite home in Pennsylvania some 35 years ago. They had electrickery, town water and central heating – but the produce they served was all home grown and tasted amazing.
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9am NZ-time and no one’s commented yet? Hello… is there anybody out there…
Another day of perfect climate here: what are all these crisis numpties on about?
PS. Page has just loaded, slowly: a glitch in the system? Glad everything’s working fine – carry on.
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Triple-C (CCC™️) seems to be affecting Australia in the oddest of ways: even though the nation’s capital runs on 100% non-refundable horse manure, it’s presently 2 degrees BELOW zero (Celsius) while across the desert in the Great Far Western State, overnight snow showers are forecast for Bluff Knoll this evening as well as a touch more this Friday the 12th.
https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Bluff-Knoll/6day/mid
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Sadly there’s no ‘resort’ atop the Knoll – you huck it up, take your photos, you huck it back down – but could a kind sandgroper from WA let us all know, in tomorrow’s post, if the above prognostication / model bore fruit? Mucho Graciás!
* Are x-spurts still looking for the missing heat?
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This is a short video about the Yamnaya people, the ancient forebearers of Indo-European language and culture and who were among the first to use the wheel and “were the first (or almost) to domesticate and ride horses and who invented 4-wheeled, ox-drawn axeled wagons that enabled them to drive herds of cattle across the steppes and carry enough water and shelter with them to do so”. They also likely brought certain technologies to China such as the wheel, copper and bronze and the use of horses.
https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74
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In the magazine “World Nuclear News’ there is excitement over the fact that Uzbekistan has poured first concrete in the construction of a 2000 MW nuclear power station. It consists of 6 333 MW SMRs derived from the nuclear power plants in Russian ice breakers. They propose the first unit will be operating by 2029.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/ceremony-to-mark-first-concrete-for-uzbekistan-smr
Where is Canavan and Taylor telling Australians what could be done far more cheaply than building bird mincers and panels?
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Three years to operating a new nuclear power plant. What were we told the lead time in Aus would be? One could get extremely depressed.😔
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They haven’t got the CFMEU or assorted levels of government and land councils “helping” They also wont find they are building, wouldn’t ya know it? on a sacred site.
In Australia we can only dream of being as developed as a Stan country.
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From the young generation point of view those V.I.Lenin’s reactors were designed on the abacus at times of James Watt.
Not without problems they run for 30 years – until the ship’s hull rusted through and through.
The next Aus government will bring SMRs here, not due to good technology or costs, but because they will be that desperate.
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Trump’s ‘angry’ phonecall with Nɛtn¥āhū last week.
Anyone else sceptical of that reporting?
Was it just play-acting to fool the masses? Make Trump look strong, in command … instead of under the direction of a foreign leader.
Which one is the real Alpha Male?
With President Reagan, you didn’t have to ask. There was no doubt Reagan was the alpha male!
When he ordered Menachem Begin to get his forces out of Lebanon, Begin obeyed.
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